Smyrna times., 1887-09-07
county and State Items.

on September ="
Gan w Ingram as agent, has sole
"ITi IItberlev farm near Odessa, to JOhr
MEOW NJ of the same place.
n. Creadick of Dover got 8, 300 bask.
III ~ BARTLETT pears from Al acres of
land. In which realized him 81, 200.
ruo weddings in high life will take
,loo in Milford within the next sixty
9ors ,lT One is in North Milford and the
other in South.
The friends of "a constitutional con-
.,ntion are talking Of holding a county
a'enyention in Georgetown during the
O'iddIe or the last of September.
Anna Maria Cannon, of Laurel, has
n.ssed her 1O4th birthday, is stout and
p..ct has never been sick enough to
ra01ire physician and has never worn
glasses
The Rev. S. B. Hayward, pastor of
Grace Baptist Church, Wilmington has
s~cepled call to the pastorate of the
Bpi;t Church at Cape May Court
House N. J.
The school dividend which is usual
" appOrtioned during the month of
August. is not yet distributed. The
schools throughout the State are want
ing the funds.
The first eyapOratOr to burn this
season was that of A. D. Nc Cabe, of
Bisbopville, Sussex County. The loss
fails entirely upon Mr.. McCabe as he
had no insurance.
Wilmington is now exercised over
her dOg-catcher. One paper says Fos-
ter, the present dog manipulation, must
TO- and thus the useless ours will lose
sight Of a familiar parsonage.
A fine hotel is being built at Milford
BY Mr.. WillOughby Stine. 1t is built
Of pressed brick, marble trimmings,
slate roof, three stories and a half high
and will be lighted by electricity.
Rev J. S. Willis has received an invi-
tatiOn to preach a trial sermon on Sun
day, Sept. 11th in Plymmoth Church,
BrOoklyn-Henry Ward Beecher's pull
pit Mr. Willis has accepted the invita-
ton.
A little daughter of John Dunning of
Dover had her left foot nearly severed.
last Thursday. An axe which a work.
man whom she was watching slipped
off the helve and struck her just above
theinstep.
Erwin F. Smith of the United States
Department of agriculture is in Dover
and will spend a couple of weeks inves-
tigating the peach yellows, for which
service he has been detailed by the
commissioner.
The plans for the the new PostOffice
building to be erected on the site at
Ninth and Shipley streets Wilmington
have been approved by the authorities
at Washington, and the work will start
early in the fall.
George Paris realized from rs acres
Ofwheat 1908 bushels, over 81 bushels
per acre, and from 35 acres he realized
l4OO bushels, which is 40 bushels per
acre. By making inquiries we find he
used Star Bone Phosphate. .-Dela,Ua-
reaR
The season at Rehoboth has ended
and there will not be another MOSQUITO
seen in the vicinity until the Whining.
Ton portion Of the Delaware Malta
arrive there next year. Mosquitoes
Know who lie about Decentralization.
tTLigh
Inc State Board of Agriculture has
appointed committee to ascertain all
yaa possible in connection with the
9Orse disease which, within the last ten
uays, has made its appearance with
slarming frequency in the lower por-
uOn OF Kent county.
al, ihS ~, IW,"@'ngtOaida heads an editor
ME Wooden Brides Must Coz We'll
W. snould think so, and that witbont
%sument. Yet the Doctor takes n
Yua1.er ,uas. column to tell why. But it ali
SnI, su,E' OIt TO be the wicked printers
''' II snould read Bridges.
Or, On Thursday 80 cars went to Balti.
IDos ro,s ana to Jersey City. When il is
RaIt.lhat %n lhat there are 30 packers in
oSsafe .,.'llVfe That can pack 6O.O6O baskets
~b' PEACHES daily, it will be readily seen
wy wy II Is they must have Deoc6es 70
even decent stock of goods.
NJ
" WDSleGtivs q G n. H. Hutchins of the p
"iG i0T,, 3. Railroad Companv arrived /
tramD" ,,u'G 4 on Saturday and arrested 10
and rT Po, =, Two of the tramps escabed
aeros. .1sue ~ thelr way on a dead RIM
We,s raj 51,l sue country, but the other eight
tbsD tbO DOund and carried to Dover wbero
'D'y We're lodged in the county ia;i Ill
tb1, aae Light House Board gives notice
wiII ,T11 Uni ~ and after September 16tb @tbero
wea,Se % u sounded in thick and fogcv
Ti"1l TiSG1saef, at the Fourteen Foo. PSsI Pesi.
tr1mpet tr'"oiOa, o; Delaware Bay, a DabolI
durafPessi giving blasts of five seconds;
secoHSu r,,gn at intervals of twentv.fve
hand MI instead of the bell ruHg bv
vortiDa o1itGiletary i,y D. P. Barnard, Jr.. who i
St.,a Sta'rg Ike beaver to NAB ~ ~ -
sDccsao ce : ar at Dover this wear a grand
gres, gsss1s, says that the indications Tor =
Co. position were never as good at
years as ttbHulng tbog time for the last ten
its donbsssnJy are at this time. and that
larpe Uo.lui sOO'a It the buildings will he
~ Ousn 70 hold the exhibits.
nal ms0',:le.d ns dreaded infection, cerebral.spi.
this S S,oaa gl!ls, spreading througbont
its fatai;to.. with wonderful rapidity and
large 11;'1 among the horses is very
ton cit, within a few miles of WiIrnins-
ported no no less than 20 deaths are re-
past n " one Veterinarian within t6o
probablv a.. weeks, and this number
deaths uOeS not represent half the
canvass :, ., franklin .sllin has completed the
COUNTY P;t,l ,; Inls county for the Kent
year was .iSle % Society. His field this
Mispiil;oorN Nofth and South MurderkiII
found II 4 and Milford hundreds He
without y a ssnese hundreds 222 families
les ana anS .le bible, gave awav 13s con.
FrapIlIi, sold about 175 comics. M
illogical Ssso sOes to enter the Drew The
70 the tima n .le @ papers are misleading as
Of a Coasts;to'll..v Cs " voting on the question
election .s.lI ,,.'i lltlonal Convention The
6rst dav WI, ssi,oe oe held on TUESDAY fha
FIRST T1sa5N y, november. and not on M
ss ineOreo,I,ay after the lirst Monday
The insneoe.ly and persistentlv stated
last ps1osto 1pectois and judges who beI ' ith,
TIE lsst to not the inspectors elected tS sios Z,
sc'iOn. -DelaUarean.
a Lawn nsR1sware n Field Club will bol,
ehanpio asennis Tournament for , n,
at tbes es'onshlp Of the State of noIo,ye,' Ia ~